Arrondissement Dendermonde

Back at Wanda it was now 2pm, it was 50 miles to our next visiting place so we decided to look for a place en-route to spend the night.
I found a great little park up on park4night and it was a 30 mile drive and we set off down the motorway and before to long we came to a turning off of the motorway that led to a recreational area in the small village of Temse. It was quiet, there was a restaurant nearby lots of hiking and biking trails and it’s free.
After a cup of tea I took the bike off the back and I headed out alone to check out the area.
I rode on gravel tracks, purpose built cycleways through some woods, round some fields on cycleways, back on to small country lanes with red cycle paths on them and finally around a lake before completing the 20km loop and arriving back at Wanda.
Back at the parking area we had been joined by another Motorhome from Belgium, we had a chat and he told me lots about the local area. Apparently the river that we are parked near runs into a series of what the British would probably call locks. In Belgium it’s called the SAS and hundreds of years ago they would open the gates and flood the dykes and people could come and collect the river water for their animals and for bathing. All of the original loch gates are still there although they are not used for that anymore.
In Wanda, Ellie had made tea with our Belgian Sausages and potato Rostis. It was a bit of a junk food dinner but it’s what I needed after a sprint on the bike. Then we settled in for the night watching Netflix before heading to bed.Lue lisää